The burgeoning of global connectivity in recent decades is without
historical parallel and the 'wiring up' of the world continues
apace, even in the poorest regions. Flux and ever-quickening change
are the leitmotifs of the 'information age' across a swathe of
human enterprise from industry and commerce through to politics and
social relations. This is no less the case for the patterns of war,
where change has been disorientating for soldiers and statesmen
whose confidence in the old, the traditional, and the known has
been shaken. David Betz's book explains the huge and disruptive
implications of connectivity for the practice of warfare. The
tactical ingenuity of opponents to confound or drop below the
thresh- old of sophisticated weapons systems means war remains the
realm of chance and probability. Increasingly, though, the
conflicts of our time are less contests of arms than wars of hearts
and minds conducted on a mass scale through multimedia
communications networks. The most pernicious challengers to the
status quo are not states but ever more powerful non-state actors.
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